The 100 Stories Project has been the heart of NNIRR’s HURRICANE initiative, putting a human face to the tragic consequences of the U.S. government’s enforcement policies. With the 100 Stories Project, community members, families, advocates, organizers and allies told their stories, gathered community testimonies and reported human rights abuses to organize demands for redress and justice.

Build leadership & capacity in immigrant communities and in our movement to systematically track, document and seek redress for human rights abuses and rights violations committed against members of our communities.

Expose patterns of abuses and support local organizing and advocacy for meaningful changes in policies and practices.

Support local community organizing "in the eye of the storm": we recognize the resilience and strength of local communities organizing in the midst of tumultuous circumstances and crises. Human rights documentation means organizing "in the eye of the storm" to sit, talk and listen to one another and figure out the changes we want and how we will get them.

TAKE ACTION:

Interview a community member, co-worker, or friend about a rights violation or abuse.

Organize a HURRICANE or 100 Stories campaign in your community to gather testimonies and determine the changes you want.

*The NNIRR is not currently accepting submissions of testimonies, however we encourage you to continue recording and reporting human rights violations and abuses.

Groundbreaking Grassroots Human Rights Reports

Over a three year period beginning in 2007, HURRICANE produced an annual human rights report highlighting the impacts of U.S. immigration enforcement policies on workers, communities, and families. By raising the voices of our communities, we organized for redress and accountability while continuing to advocate for changes in immigration policies that are fair and just and do not compromise or undermine human rights.

Guilty by Immigration Status (September 2009) revealed that "immigration policing- using immigration status to implement repressive policies to detain persons- is now pervasive as a draconian form of social, economic and political control from the womb to the workplace." In addition, the report noted the dramatic expansion and consolidation of an "immigration control regime," that violates the human rights of immigrants, including legal permanent residents and U.S. citizens at the U.S.-Mexico border and in the U.S. interior. (pp i)

Injustice for All: The Rise of the U.S. Immigration Policing Regime (December 2010) found that the U.S. has built a brutal system of immigration control and policing that criminalizes immigration status, normalizes the forcible separation of families, destabilizes communities and workplaces, and fuels widespread civil rights violations. (pp iii)